Rajha Shakiry
SET & COSTUME DESIGNER
Rajha was born in Iraq and educated in England. After an honours degree in Mathematics, she re-trained in Theatre Design, graduating from Wimbledon School of Art in 2003. She has since worked as a freelance theatre designer and maker and has obtained a distinction in MA Scenography from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Rajha has exhibited her work at the V&A Museum, part of the Society of British Theatre Designers Make:Believe Exhibition, 2015. She was selected as a finalist alongside 100 International Designers to exhibit her work at the World Stage Design, 2013. Rajha has also exhibited her work at Transformation & Revelation, 2011, the Society of British Theatre Designers’ professional UK National Exhibition of Design for Performance and in 2019 at the Prague Quadrennial & V&A’s Staging Places exhibition.
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THEATRE CREDITS
PRODUCTION | VENUE/PRODUCER | YEAR | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Jungle Book | National Theatre | 2026 | |
| An Ideal Husband | Lyric Hammersmith | 2026 | |
| The Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo | Young Vic | 2025 | |
| King Troll | Kali Theatre & New Diorama Theatre | 2024 | |
| The Hot Wing King | National Theatre | 2024 | |
| The Father and the Assassin | National Theatre | 2023 | |
| seven methods of killing kylie jenner | Public Theatre, NYC and Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Washington | 2023 | |
| Misty | The Shed, NYC | 2023 | |
| The Father and the Assassin | National Theatre | 2022 | |
| Two Palestinians Go Dogging | Royal Court Theatre | 2022 | |
| Trouble in Mind | National Theatre | 2021 | |
| The Mountaintop | Royal Exchange Theatre | 2021 | |
| seven methods of killing kylie jenner | Royal Court Theatre | 2021 | |
| Return of Danton | Collective Ma'louba, Germany | 2021 | |
| Autoreverse | Battersea Arts Centre | 2020 | |
| Master Harold and the Boys | National Theatre | 2019 | |
| seven methods of killing kylie jenner | Royal Court Theatre | 2019 | Olivier Awards Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre nomination |
| Going Through | Bush Theatre | 2019 | |
| Richard II | Shakespeare's Globe | 2019 | |
| The Dark | Fuel Theatre, Oval House and UK Tour | 2018 | |
| Sundowning | Kali Theatre | 2018 | |
| Nine Night | National Theatre & West End | 2018/9 | |
| The Mountaintop | Desara Productions & JMK UK Tour | 2018 | |
| Misty | Bush Theatre & West End | 2017/18 | |
| The Mountaintop | Young Vic Theatre | 2016 | JMK Award |
| Mobile | Paper Birds | 2016 | |
| How Nigeria Became | Unicorn Theatre | 2015 | |
| Sweet Taboo | Embassy Theatre | 2013 | |
| I Stand Corrected | Artscape & Ovalhouse | 2012/14 | |
| Richard II | Ashtar Theatre, Hisham’s Palace, Jericho and Shakespeare’s Globe | 2012 | |
| Still Life Dreaming | Pleasance, Edinburgh | 2011 | |
| Safe | New Diorama Theatre | 2010 | |
| The Lion And The Unicorn | Eastern Angels | 2009 | |
| Lincoln Road | Eastern Angels | 2009 | |
| Krunch | National Arts Festival, Grahamstown | 2009 | |
| Feeble Minds | Albany Theatre, Rich Mix | 2009 | |
| Speak | Stratford East, LIFT Festival | 2008 | |
| A Night at the Theatre | Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds | 2008 | |
| Muhammad Ali And Me | Albany Theatre, London and UK Tour | 2008 | |
| Moj Of The Antartic | Lyric Hammersmith, Ovalhouse Theatre and South African Tour | 2006/07/08 | |
| Visible | Contact, Everyman, Ustinov And Soho Theatre | 2005 | |
| Goblin Market | Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sydmonton Festival And Southwark Playhouse | 2005 | |
| The Ghost Downstairs | New Perspectives Theatre | 2005 | Co-Designer |
| Changes | Cardboard Citizens | Cardboard Citizens | |
| Tales from the Emerald City | Cardboard Citizens | 2005 | |
| Love Wars | Cardboard Citizens | 2005 | |
| Brokenville | Oval House | 2005 | |
| Everything Is Illuminated | Ectetera Theatre | 2004 | |
| Nymphs And Shepherds | Ectetera Theatre | 2004 | |
| The Wall | Cardboard Citizens | 2004 |
OPERA CREDITS
PRODUCTION | VENUE/PRODUCER | YEAR | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|
| Don Giovanni | St Andrew’s Church, Islington and Beauforthuis, Holland | 2005 | |
| Le Nozze Di Figaro | St Andrew’s Church, Islington and Beauforthuis, Holland | 2004 |
DANCE CREDITS
PRODUCTION | VENUE/PRODUCER | YEAR | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|
| Don Giovanni | St Andrew’s Church, Islington and Beauforthuis, Holland | 2005 | |
| Le Nozze Di Figaro | St Andrew’s Church, Islington and Beauforthuis, Holland | 2004 |
TV & FILM CREDITS
PRODUCTION | VENUE/PRODUCER | YEAR | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can I Live? | Complicité | 2021 | Short Film |
EXHIBITION & EVENT CREDITS
PRODUCTION | VENUE/PRODUCER | YEAR | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Amal: I'm 10 today | Victoria & Albert Museum | 2021 | |
| Staging Places | Quadrennial, Prague & Victoria & Albert Museum, London | 2019 | |
| Make Believe | Society of British Theatre Designers Exhibition, Nottingham & Victoria & Albert Museum, London | 2015 | |
| World Stage Design | Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama | 2013 | |
| Transformation and Revelation | Society of British Theatre Designers | 2011 |
